Improvement in machinery for shaping heels for boots and shoes



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ACHINERY FOR. SHAPING HEELS FOR BOO'ISAND No.174,096. Patented Feb.

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MACHINERY FOR SHAPING HEELS FOR. BOOT-S AND SHOES. I No..174,096.. Patented F'eb.29,1876.

.To all whom it may concern UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT TAYLOR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINERY FOR SHAPING HEELQ FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 174,096, dated February 29, 1876; application filed i December 20, 1875. Y

Be it known that 1, ROBERT-TAYLOR, of the city of New York, county and State of New York, have invented. a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Shaping Leather Shells for Boot and Shoe Heels, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to machines used for forming boot and shoe heels that are composed of hollow shells, the cores of which are compactly packed with scraps of leather or other filling, particularly to that class of heels that by their outward contour could not be formed or shaped in a closed mold.

1n the accompanying drawing,'Figure l is a view of an ordinary heel molding-press operated by alever, A. Fig. 2is asectional view of thesanie. Fig. 3 is a view of my heel-press madeon sections hinged together to permit 'the manufacture of heels with convexed serpentine or curved outer face. tional view of the same.

Appropriate letters designate the several parts.

Fig. 4 is a sec- The operation is as follows: After the hol matrix, E, as shown in Fig. 4, is fastened down to the bed-plate G, in a position reversed to that shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The sectional mold has handles f f, so as to facilitate the opening and closing of the mold on a horizontal plane. The lever A, in Figs. 3 and 4, carhand power with lever, as described; but I do not desire to confine myself to this manner of applying pressure, asit is manifest that the various movements and compression can be as readily effected with appropriate gearing to hand, foot, steam or any other power.

What I claim as my invention is In a heel-forming press the combination of the sectional laterally-opening mold D, having handles f f, with the stationary matrix E, secured to the bed-plate G, and the swinging flattening-plate H, substantially as described, for the purpose intended.

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Witnesses:

WALDOY H. PHILLIPS, FRANCIS B. ANTZ. 

